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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Social robotics"”.
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Designing social robotics systems.Telepresence experiences for educational contexts.
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The power of affective touch within social robotics
There have been many leaps and bounds within social robotics, especially within human-robot interaction and how to make it a more meaningful relationship. This is traditionally accomplished through communicating via vision and sound. It has been shown that humans naturally seek interaction through …
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Broadening Participation of Girls in Computing: An Integrated Approach to Supporting Interest in CS
… In response to these needs, I developed a social robotics curriculum, referred to as MyTurn, utilizing the Developing Interest in Computing Education (DICE) theoretical framework. The MyTurn curriculum takes an integrated approach to fostering girls’ interest in CS by supporting knowledge, …
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Keep an eye on stereotypes – the impact of gender stereotypes (toward humans and robots) on language processing
… theories from the fields of psycholinguistics, social psychology, and social robotics were combined. Doing so, four main research aims were pursued: First, I investigated whether adverbs’ (Experiment 1 and Experiment 3) and main verbs’ (Experiment 2 and Experiment 4) gender-stereotypicality …
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Creating robotic characters for long-term interaction
… ways in which humans and robots interact in social settings have a problem: they don't have a robot to use. There is a need for a socially expressive robot that can be deployed outside of a laboratory and support remote operation and data collection. This work aims to fill that need with …
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Ambivalence in attitudes towards robots
… attitudes towards robots from an experimental social psychological perspective. While ambivalence has been a research topic for almost a hundred years, it is often overlooked in the context of attitude research. When an attitude towards an attitude object is not clearly positive or negative, it …
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On development and perception of theomorphic robots: the uncanny valley effect to Artificial Intelligence (AI)
… form, while also testing the applicability of social robotics assessment tools in computational contexts. Ultimately, this research contributes to both cultural robotics and methodological innovation in evaluating robot perception, without relying exclusively on human subjects.
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Intent Recognition in Multi-Agent Domains
… recognition is an extremely important aspect of social robotics. The ability to recognize and react to intentions is not only an integral part of social interaction, but is also useful in adversarial domains, as discussed in this thesis. It is especially important to be capable of performing …
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The plastic dynamism of the human aesthetic : employing futurist methodologies in the cross-disciplinary design of social robot morphologies
… at play in the morphological design of social robots. The thesis argues for a knowing and consciously engaged approach to the matter and materialisation of non-human bodies in a technologically-driven discipline that is rapidly shaping, and being shaped, by society. Through a survey of …
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Friend Me Your Ears: A Musical Approach to Human-Robot Relationships
… for affective engagement, shared creativity, and social activity. This being said, it is unlikely that a robot best equipped to build sustainable and meaningful relationships with humans will be one that can solely play music. In their day-to-day lives, most humans encounter machines and computer …
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Passivity-Based Hands Towards General-Purpose Robotic Manipulation
… where development contributes significantly to social robotics, industrial robotics and prosthetics. Despite a long history of research into artificial hands and significant development along the way, human-level manipulation remains unsolved. The current landscape of manipulation research …
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Models of Intention for Human-Robot Interaction
… to develop systems that engage with humans on a social level. A key component of this social interaction is the process of inferring humans' intentions from their observed behavior. In this dissertation, we define the "intent recognition problem" in robotics, describing what it is and why it …
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Artificial Emotional Intelligence in Socially Assistive Robots
… of artificial intelligence, psychology, robotics, biometrics, and many more fields of study. The main component in AEI and affective computing is emotion, and how we can utilize emotion to create a more natural and productive relationship between humans and machines.</p> <p>An area in …
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Continual Learning for Affective Robotics
… to respond in a manner that fosters their social and emotional wellbeing. Embedding affective robots with learning mechanisms that enable such a robust understanding of human behaviour as well as their own role in an interaction forms the central focus of affective robotics research. …
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Creative Technologies for Behaviour Change
This thesis presents innovative uses of technology to support motivation, using motivational interviewing (MI) and functional imagery training (FIT) scripts developed specifically for remote delivery. MI scripts aimed to develop discrepancy, evoke solutions and promote self-efficacy. FIT scripts …
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Towards expressive mobile robots
Given the increase in robotic systems for the household, it is imperative to design the expressive modes of these systems, that in turn engender likability, animacy, acceptance, trust and adoption. This paper approaches this problem by proposing a design methodology that can be used to abstract …
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Robotic Mental Well-being Coaches: Design and Deployment
In this thesis, robotic mental well-being coaches are envisioned as tools to promote users’ well-being. With the rising prevalence of mental health disorders such as depression and anxiety, access to mental well-being services remains a significant challenge. Robotic mental well-being coaches are a …